Grand Theft Auto V is the fastest selling videogame of all time, and Rockstar is racing to make sure that when the online portion of the game is turned on, the servers will be able to handle the massive strain.
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Creative director Jonathan Morin for Watch Dogs has commented on the scale differences between their near future map of Chicago and Rockstar's Los Santos and Blaine County in Grand Theft Auto V. The Watch Dogs team promote density "a lot more than scale," adding that that's something a lot of titles "aren't exploring" fully. In their Chicago you could "stand still and profile people for ten minutes".
Rockstar's Dan Houser believes that large single player games attract a bigger audience than multiplayer games, as he discussed fixing the Grand Theft Auto Online issues.
Drama! EA Sports has swanned in with FIFA 14 and grand theft charted the top spot from Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V in the UK all format chart. The crime spree sandbox has to make do with 2nd place. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition was 3rd, followed by PES 2014 now 4th. Splinter Cell: Blacklist slinkies down 7th, along with Saints Row IV and Diablo III 8th and 9th. Rayman Legends climbs 10th.
As promised, the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto Online mode in Grand Theft Auto V will finally go live later today, the 1st October. The mode takes place a few months prior to the events of the single player campaign.
As predicted by Rockstar Games themselves, GTA Online has switched on and the masses are flooding into it. Naturally there are going to be problems, with error codes and freezes already rampaging. The first race in GTA Online is causing an endless 'waiting for other players' freeze right now, and Rockstar are working on it. Running a private session of GTA Online is probably best.
Grand Theft Auto V's heavily hyped online mode, Grand Theft Auto Online, continues to have serious connectivity issues since being launched 24 hours ago. Rockstar continues to reassure fans that it's working on the problem.
Apparently Rockstar sneaked in some changes to Grand Theft Auto V while they patched the game to switch on GTA Online. Those mysterious thieves pinching cars from garages? Beaten with a tire iron. The idiot locking up the Vanilla Unicorn occasionally? Fired. Seven specific issues were addressed in GTA V, and Rockstar have announced what they are via their Newswire.
As the server issues continue to plague Grand Theft Auto V's Grand Theft Auto Online mode, Rockstar has announced that microtransactions will be suspended until those issues are resolved.
Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies has said they've got almost half a century's worth of ideas left for more Grand Theft Auto, and yes, Rockstar have "got some ideas" for GTA VI rattling around. Right now though it's all hands on deck for GTA Online, "plus we have some other things" like DLC and 'stuff' - "I don't know how to describe it exactly". It's called 'Bully 2' hopefully.
Ned Luke plays the role of Michael De Santa, the family man out of GTA V's three protagonists. Anyone opinionated about these games without playing them first should go play them "before they open their mouths." He argues that you should be looking for the "irony and the satire" in GTA V. "What, do they think we're serious?" Games like GTA provide a power trip - "No, this isn't life. This is imagination."
Leslie Benzies, president of Rockstar North, hails the accomplishments a studio can achieve in that "last five to ten per cent of work" on a game, which can grant all the difference in the world when it's finished. Frankly, the "level of perfection" witnessed in the likes of Grand Theft Auto V is "not seen or understood" by the majority of the industry, remarked Benzies.
Rockstar has confirmed the release of the title update for GTA Online for PlayStation 3, while the Xbox 360 version they hope to be out "as soon as possible today." They detail the latest developments. Apparently a PlayStation Network server issue was "limiting the amount of possible concurrent users," which prevented most from playing but has now been "resolved".
Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies told Develop that Grand Theft Auto required "level of perfection" many games don't have. Apparently, it requires 1000 developers to achieve that "perfection".
While EA Sports' FIFA 14 may have kept the crown for another week in the UK all format chart, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V after just three weeks on sale has blown past lifetime sales of its predecessor. The return to Los Santos has become the 12th biggest selling title, with revenue at 5th best just behind four Call of Dutys. Codemasters' F1 2013 debuted 3rd place with NBA 2K14 7th.
Reports have been filing in that characters, progress, items and in-game cash are being lost with GTA Online, as Rockstar Games continues to struggle with demand which is only making bugs and glitches worse. The studio are "working diligently to identify and correct" the issues causing these wipes, which seem to have affected most during the "first few days after release."
Missing characters in GTA Online is a big problem right now and Rockstar Games warn users not to create new characters in those slots previously occupied, as the studio continues to investigate. Instead they say return to GTA V's story mode and then reconnect to GTA Online. They also ask not to hit 'retry' when receiving the 'Rockstar Cloud Servers Are Unavailable' error.
Eurogamer claims industry sources have told them that the PC adaptation of Grand Theft Auto V will be arriving in the first quarter of 2014.
Following the "recent technical issues" that GTA Online has been experiencing, like character wipes, Rockstar Games are injecting a "special stimulus package" for all who log in during the October month. They'll be dropping "a cool half a million GTA$" into the bank accounts of all GTA Online players, "starting as early as next week." The cash will be made in two separate deposits.
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V has heisted its way back atop the UK all format chart as EA Sports' FIFA 14 dribbles behind 2nd, as sales fall 66%. Taking 3rd and 4th place are Nintendo's Pokemon X & Y. Pikachu and friends have debuted with double the opening enjoyed by 2012's Pokemon Black 2 / White 2. Other newcomer Beyond: Two Souls from Quantic Dreams launches 5th.